The American President's White House 1600 Daily on July 31, 2019 has made one of its most important announcements ever, impacting the lives of many Americans, and, for many of those citizens still in doubt, giving undecided voters a very strong reason to re-elect Donald Trump as President of the United States. He is working for the benefit of the common man. As written there:

"The Trump Administration’s new plan, announced this morning, will allow companies to import drugs sold in other countries—including Canada—to save Americans money. Manufacturers can now bring the lower-cost versions of drugs they sell abroad to the United States, so long as the FDA verifies the medicines are identical and meet safety standards."

This type of re-import has long been the practice in Europe and has over the years led to significant reductions in the prices of medicinal drugs sold in local pharmacies, since domestic drug prices have had to be adjusted significantly downward to avoid losing too many customers to much cheaper re-import competition.

By the way, don't worry about the health of the pharma industry in the aftermath of this plan. Drug companies will still profit billions, regardless of what is done, due to advantages for medicines provided by prevailing patent laws.

Americans pay far more money for medically required drugs than those same drugs cost overseas. As the 1600 Daily correctly notes.

"Foreign countries buy drugs at substantially lower
prices, meaning American patients subsidize the cost of the expensive
drug research and development for the rest of the world. Many times,
medicines that cost hundreds of dollars in the U.S. cost as little as a
few dollars overseas. Time and time again, our own citizens get the
worst deal."

The 1600 Daily continues:

"Big Pharma doesn’t want that to change, but “President Trump listened to the American people,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says. “We heard about the pain Americans are feeling at the pharmacy counter, we learned that this was impacting Americans’ health, and we’re taking action.”

Today’s announcement builds on President Trump’s other efforts to make medicine affordable for all Americans. Following the release of the President’s blueprint to lower prescription drug costs last year, December 2018 marked the first time in 46 years that the official government measure of inflation in drug prices dropped.

More help is on the way—“to end foreign freeloading and put American patients first,” Secretary Azar says."

In spite of all the criticism permanently leveled at President Trump by the predominantly left-leaning mainstream news media, who are more interested in "political correctness" rather than nuts and bolts results benefitting the mass of the citizenry, few can doubt that Trump is a man of action, and is achieving some excellent things, as in this case by disrupting harmful, entrenched monopolies, such as prevail in the pharmaceutical industry (due in part to a very faulty patent system, as we have been writing for years).

We repeat.
Health is Wealth. Bravo to the Trump Administration for this action.

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Both volumes have the same cover except for the labels "Volume 1" viz. "Volume 2".The image on the cover was created using public domain space photos of Earth from NASA.

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Both book volumes contain the following basic book description:"Alice Cunningham Fletcher observed in her 1902 publication in the American Anthropologistthat there is ample evidence that some ancient cultures in Native America,e.g. the Pawnee in Nebraska, geographically located their villages according to patterns seen in stars of the heavens.See Alice C. Fletcher, Star Cult Among the Pawnee--A Preliminary Report,American Anthropologist, 4, 730-736, 1902.Ralph N. Buckstaff wrote:"These Indians recognized the constellations as we do, also the important stars,drawing them according to their magnitude.The groups were placed with a great deal of thought and care and show long study. ... They were keen observers....The Pawnee Indians must have had a knowledge of astronomycomparable to that of the early white men."See Ralph N. Buckstaff, Stars and Constellations of a Pawnee Sky Map,American Anthropologist, Vol. 29, Nr. 2, April-June 1927, pp. 279-285, 1927.In our book, we take these observations one level furtherand show that megalithic sites and petroglyphic rock carvingand pictographic rock art in Native America,together with mounds and earthworks, were made to represent territorial geographic landmarksplaced according to the stars of the sky using the ready map of the starry skyin the hermetic tradition, "as above, so below".That mirror image of the heavens on terrestrial land is the "Sky Earth" of Native America,whose "rock stars" are the real stars of the heavens,"immortalized" by rock art petroglyphs, pictographs,cave paintings, earthworks and mounds of various kinds (stone, earth, shells) on our Earth.These landmarks were placed systematicallyin North America, Central America (Meso-America) and South Americaand can to a large degree be reconstructed as the Sky Earth of Native America."